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You can't do 100% "show, don't tell" unless your movie is 15 hours long. It's always about balance, and it's probably one of the hardest challenges in scriptwriting and directing. Netflix movies have always leaned more toward the "tell" side, and this feels like an open acknowledgment of it.

Small digression: Turkish series have been doing an extreme version of "telling" for ages. I've been watching the cheesiest ones with my wife as she uses them to unwind (I do the same with YouTube videos). In these shows, characters don't just say what they're doing, they also explain how they feel, what they plan to do, and how they'll feel afterward. It's oddly addictive, like watching a bad movie on purpose, and somehow, you end up completely hooked.

>>egeozc+(OP)
I know precisely what you mean. I randomly stumbled upon the anime Solo Leveling, which also follows the 100% tell style. The main character reads out everything, narrates every scene, and explains his own thought processes and emotions at every step.

It is weirdly addicting, perhaps only because I'm bored of the show-don't-tell style and it's refreshing to see something going contrary to that.

>>egeozc+(OP)
>Small digression: Turkish series have been doing an extreme version of "telling" for ages.

From a european perspective that is what US TV series and movies have been doing for 4 decades already as well as following the very same mechanics. In most shows you can tell in advance what is about to happen next at any point in time this is embarassing. I used to think US people had to be super dumb for that reason then realized they gradually started doing it on euro stuff. I guess we just use the lowest baseline possible because the people who spend the most time passively i front of a screen happen to also be the dumbest ones.

>>egeozc+(OP)
> You can't do 100% "show, don't tell" unless your movie is 15 hours long

You most certainly can, though it relies on trusting the audience.

Flow (2024)

Sasquatch Sunset (2024)

Hundreds of Beavers (2022)

>>jiggaw+32
Just to note, Solo Leveling is Korean.

>>mwigda+29
Thanks for the correction.

>>ndsipa+L6
It also probably depends on having a generally undistracted audience which you probably don't have a lot of the time especially outside of a movie theater.

>>ndsipa+L6
> Hundreds of Beavers (2022)

Hundreds of Beavers! So pleased that someone else here has seen this awesome film

>>Kineti+kg
It's like a live-action Looney Tunes cartoon

>>ghaff+Vc
I watch a lot of films and series (mainly SciFi) at home and I find that when I start to get bored is when I'll pick up my phone and half-watch the TV. It's one sign of a great show that I'll be paying it 100% attention and not mucking around with a phone.

>>egeozc+(OP)
Honestly, the more I read, the less I appreciate the "show, don't tell" rule/guideline/mantra.

>>ndsipa+zi
I admit I find the long complicated series (yes, often SF or fantasy) a bit exhausting, have a definite limit, and I try to avoid interleaving too much.

>>egeozc+(OP)
Some Turkish TV soap operas have 3 hour long episodes which cost $1 mil each. And are really well acted, with very good drama, humor, etc

>>jiggaw+Pa
I haven't read/seen it but my understanding is that it's an anime/Japanese show. The original story was a webcomic written by a Korean author on a Korean webtoon platform (with the long scrolling pages of Korean webtoons) but forsome reason Solo Leveling and other popular webcomics were adapted by Japanese animation studios, although they may subcontract some of the work back to Korea.